WABI broadcast Saturday evening news stories from UMaine’s Homecoming Weekend. One report featured the traditional craft fair held in the UMaine Field House. The other one featured the “fill the bus” campaign intended to stock the shelves at the Black Bear Exchange food pantry.
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A Saturday Lewiston Sun Journal story reported on issues related to bed bugs at a Lewiston-area hospital. The story provides a link to a UMaine Cooperative Extension video with Extension pest management specialist Jim Dill providing advice about avoiding infestation.
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UMaine business professors John Mahon and Anne Canabal were quoted in a Friday Bangor Daily News story about the impact of foreign investment on Maine’s economy. The story is based on the news that at Hong Kong-based investment group is buying the pulp mill in Baileyville.
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UMaine President Robert Kennedy and Athletic Director Steve Abbott announced a $5.5 million gift from the Harold Alfond Foundation at a Friday morning UMaine news conference. The university will use that money to support renovation projects at Memorial Gymnasium and Harold Alfond Arena. A story appears online at Maine Today Media (the Portland Press Herald, […]
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Contact: Joe Carr (207) 581-3751 ORONO — The Harold Alfond Foundation will provide $5.5 million to support University of Maine efforts to renovate its two indoor sports competition facilities, Memorial Gymnasium and Harold Alfond Sports Arena. “For decades, the Alfond name has been synonymous with generous support for the University of Maine,” says UMaine President […]
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Contact: Kristin Sobolik, 581-3583; Jane Dare, 581-1954 ORONO — The Third Annual Maine Heritage Lecture on Oct. 25 will feature noted Maine writer, editor and English teacher Sanford “Sandy” Phippen presenting “Stories of Laughter and Tears.” Phippen, former host of the MPBN program “A Good Read” and a member of the Fogler Library Friends Advisory […]
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UMaine economist Todd Gabe has an op-ed in Friday’s Portland Press Herald about his recent study in which he detailed the potential economic impact of the proposed Oxford County resort casino. Gabe addresses the issue of whether or not the casino would bring in new revenues to Maine.
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Libby Mitchell, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, mentioned UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center in a q-and-a interview on freepressonline.com. Mitchell said the center is contributing to job growth in the transportation sector.
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Contact: Rebecca Holberton, (207) 581-2526 or rebecca.holberton@maine.edu The Gulf of Maine is a major migration route for many species of birds heading south for the winter and north for the summer. The newly established Northeast Regional Migration Monitoring Network, a group of researchers that includes UMaine biologist Rebecca Holberton and other UMaine scientists, has spent […]
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Contact: Peter Fandel, (207) 581-1835 ORONO — Climate and environmental change, often blamed for rising sea levels, unprecedented droughts, floods, fires, deforestation and other phenomena that affect sustainability and natural resources, also threatens to intensify political and social conflict and lessen global security. To address that, the University of Maine School of Policy and International […]
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